Temperate Forest

Night Heron

Night hunter with a black-crowned cap

Dire Wolf

The Pleistocene's powerhouse wolf

Arctodus

Pleistocene's long-legged giant bear

Killdeer

The plover that out-acts predators

Thylacoleo

Australia's blade-toothed marsupial lion

Diamond Python

Cool-climate python, diamond-bold!

Jungle Carpet Python

Rainforest gold: the jungle carpet python

Indian python

India's river-edge giant constrictor

Coastal Carpet Python

Patterned climber of the east coast

Spotted python

Spots by night, constrict by might

Muttaburrasaurus

Queensland's blunt-snouted browser

Hooded Oriole

Palm-frond weaver of the Southwest

Krait

Silent stripes, serious venom.

Titanoboa

The rainforest boa that broke records

Phorusrhacos

Miocene runner with a can-opener beak

Arctotherium

Short-faced giants of Ice Age South America

Sinosauropteryx

Jehol's fuzzy little predator

Terror Bird

Run fast. Strike hard. Terror bird.

Compsognathus

Small body, sharp bite, Jurassic sprint

Ceratosaurus

The horned hunter of the Morrison

Tarbosaurus

Nemegt's tyrant king

Megatherium

The Great Beast of the Ice Age

Cave Bear

The Pleistocene cave hibernator

Cave Lion

Ice Age king of the open steppe